Monday’s Meditation: On Soulmates

September 24, 2012

I believe in soulmates.

My conception of the term is not limited to the romantic or defined by a maximum or minimum: the one and only person out there for you in the universe, aka Mr./ Ms. Right.

Rather, my understanding of the term “soulmate” is any person with whom you share a profound, seemingly uncanny understanding of the other. It is literally a person with whom you connect on a soul level, whom you are inexplicably drawn to– the connection seemingly due in no part to the practicality of exchanges, but to the incompressible and effortless ways of destiny.

There are other friends– good ones- and you may commonly share in-depth discussions with them, but soulmates are different. With soulmates there exists that mostly indescribably feeling of “I get you and I feel you get me.” With soulmates you can be sitting there talking about the silliness of weather patterns, the traffic during your morning commute, or the color of the leaves and simultaneously, somewhere underneath, a silent channel runs between the two of you: our spirits are made up of the same stuff. 

I can’t say for sure how many a person gets in a lifetime, because I haven’t yet lived mine out. But I do know that you get a few, at least, if you’re lucky. And I do know that once you find a soulmate, you will never feel better, or happier or more fulfilled than you will when you’re with them. That when you’re drowning in feelings of hopelessness, of confusion and sadness, a soulmate is sustenance. A soulmate will bring you back to the surface, and it won’t be anything they say. It will be your remembering that there are people in this world who more than love you, who more than root for you and want the best for you– but who comprehend the deepest most twisty places inside you.

Perhaps someone reading this will claim they have yet to find their soulmates, and to them I offer the most unhelpful advice: keep looking, keep living. They will turn up, I promise. We are naturally led towards finding our counterparts. No man, we have been told, is an island.

This week, there is no conflict I am attempting to solve. There is no pain on which I wish to dwell. There is only the celebration of this most sacred connection between beings called soulmates. I would not know full well who I was without mine.

5 Comments

  1. ashley on September 24, 2012 at 10:12 am

    love this. i can’t say i believe in the notion of one soul mate either. that’s way too much pressure – what if you never find mr. or ms. right?? but after i met my husband i began to believe that there was something more than romantic love. it reminds me of a joni mitchell lyric: “love is touching souls/surely you’ve touched mine ’cause part of you flows out of me in these lines from time to time”

  2. Dawn {The Alternative Wife} on September 24, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    Totally love this Annie! I so believe this. I’m lucky because J and I were really best friends before we even started dating. We’ve known each other since we were six years old so we are truly soulmates. But I also have had this feeling/connection with two other people in my life. I feel truly blessed to have had them all in my lives.

    Hope you’re doing well, sweetie. I’ve missed you 🙂 xoxo

    • livesimplybyannie on September 30, 2012 at 10:52 am

      SO crazy!!! Did not realize you’ve known each other since you were six!! You truly are soulmates. Really incredible- love this.

  3. SFtrends on September 25, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    I want Giselle to be my soulmate, like in the picture. We could swing together in a hammock in our bra tops, LOL’ing

  4. […] were established with you in mind, basking in the luxury of dining out, of being in the company of soul mates, of talking deep and speaking sillies and laughing and […]

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5 Comments

  1. ashley on September 24, 2012 at 10:12 am

    love this. i can’t say i believe in the notion of one soul mate either. that’s way too much pressure – what if you never find mr. or ms. right?? but after i met my husband i began to believe that there was something more than romantic love. it reminds me of a joni mitchell lyric: “love is touching souls/surely you’ve touched mine ’cause part of you flows out of me in these lines from time to time”

  2. Dawn {The Alternative Wife} on September 24, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    Totally love this Annie! I so believe this. I’m lucky because J and I were really best friends before we even started dating. We’ve known each other since we were six years old so we are truly soulmates. But I also have had this feeling/connection with two other people in my life. I feel truly blessed to have had them all in my lives.

    Hope you’re doing well, sweetie. I’ve missed you 🙂 xoxo

    • livesimplybyannie on September 30, 2012 at 10:52 am

      SO crazy!!! Did not realize you’ve known each other since you were six!! You truly are soulmates. Really incredible- love this.

  3. SFtrends on September 25, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    I want Giselle to be my soulmate, like in the picture. We could swing together in a hammock in our bra tops, LOL’ing

  4. […] were established with you in mind, basking in the luxury of dining out, of being in the company of soul mates, of talking deep and speaking sillies and laughing and […]

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